{"id":34641,"date":"2021-04-28T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridabaptist.wpengine.com\/?p=34641"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:07:53","slug":"5-year-synopsis-of-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/5-year-synopsis-of-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year synopsis of ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\">I am deeply grateful for the privilege of serving the churches of the <a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\">Florida Baptist Convention<\/a>. I am thankful for the unity that exists among our fellowship of churches. I rejoice in the blessings of God upon Florida Baptists as we seek to reach Florida and beyond for Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I recently compiled a five year synopsis of ministry for Florida Baptists. It is exciting to review all that God has done, is doing, and will do through Challenge 2025 across Florida. The following information summarizes areas of ministry from 2016-2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong>Church Planting from 2016-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">284 churches planted by churches<br \/>\n261 church plants remain active<br \/>\n91.90% success rate with church plants<br \/>\n$4,399,278 invested in churches planting churches<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong>Church Revitalization from 2016-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">503 churches have experienced support<br \/>\n$7,035,448 invested in church revitalization<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong>Baptisms from 2016-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">115,773 baptisms reported by Florida Baptist Churches<br \/>\n10% plus of total SBC baptisms are through Florida Baptist Churches<br \/>\nFlorida Baptist Churches lead the SBC in baptisms<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong>Cooperative Program from 2016-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">$145,329,800 given through the <a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/cp\">CP<\/a> by Florida Baptist Churches<br \/>\n$77,839,234 advanced in partnership to the Southern Baptist Convention<br \/>\nFlorida Baptists sends 51% to the SBC and retains 49% in Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong>Maguire State Mission Offering from 2016-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">$3,125,319 given by Florida Baptist Churches<br \/>\n100% of <a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/send\">MSMO<\/a> funds church planting in Florida through Send Network FL<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">This overview is a point of thanksgiving and celebration for Florida Baptists. Thank you Florida Baptist Churches for your Kingdom heart and Great Commission commitment. I believe that in Christ that our greatest days of mission and ministry are ahead of us.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Challenge-2025-Goals.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34642 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Challenge-2025-Goals.jpg\" alt=\"Challenge 2025 Goals\" width=\"598\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply grateful for the privilege of serving the churches of the Florida Baptist Convention. I am thankful for the unity that exists among our fellowship of churches. I rejoice in the blessings of God upon Florida Baptists as we seek to reach Florida and beyond for Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":28582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2621,224],"tags":[691,255,511,194,831],"class_list":["post-34641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-drgreen-blog","tag-baptisms","tag-church-planting","tag-church-revitalization","tag-cooperative-program","tag-maguire-state-mission-offering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67332,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641\/revisions\/67332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}